Alcon Entertainment has confirmed that Carla Juri (Wetlands) has joined the cast of the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, where she’ll be starring alongside Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks and Dave Bautista. Sicario‘s Denis Villeneuve is directing the film.
According to Variety, the sequel will be set several decades after the original film. Ford will be reprising his role as Rick Deckard, a special kind of police office known as a “Blade Runner” who hunts down “Replicants”, genetically engineered people, when they get out of line. The original movie took place in 2019 Los Angeles, so it’ll be interesting to see how that world evolved over “several decades”.
Ridley Scott, who directed the 1982 original, is acting as executive producer.